Losing Ground but Gaining Data: Erosion and Archeology in Badlands Parks

Author(s): Erin Dempsey

Year: 2015

Summary

In 2013, the Midwest Archeological Center initiated a five-year project to study the impacts of erosion on archeological sites in Great Plains parks, specifically those parks with badlands geography. The project is designed to provide information on erosion rates in a variety of environmental contexts, as well as erosion’s effect on different features and artifact types. In the future, these data will be used to predict which sites or potential site locations may be most vulnerable to climate change and attendant erosion. Parks included in the study are Scotts Bluff National Monument in Nebraska, Badlands National Park in South Dakota, and Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. This presentation will share the results of the first two field seasons, which took place at Scotts Bluff and Badlands.

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Losing Ground but Gaining Data: Erosion and Archeology in Badlands Parks. Erin Dempsey. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 396369)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
North America - Plains

Spatial Coverage

min long: -113.95; min lat: 30.751 ; max long: -97.163; max lat: 48.865 ;